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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: | chickenstrip YFPOS wrote: | I preferred the Benelli 900 Sei |
Iirc correctly, I've seen just the one. It's owned by my mate's brother - who never rides it and for whom it's some sort of investment (apparently). Time will tell on that score. I err towards the sceptical side on that particular piece of speculation! |
I have never seen another quite like the one I used to see. It was bright red and black, and had the little Guzzi Le Mans Mk1 nose fairing. Low, sleek and very, very loud!
I think most people don't even know about them - they'd know of the Ducati 900SS, the Laverda Jota etc, but this one slipped under the radar, so it won't have a misty-eyed following willing to blow megabucks on any surviving examples perhaps. Maybe in reality it wasn't a great bike? Dunno. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: | Of course - the TR1. The reason I should've mentioned it is because a very good mate of mine owned one from new and put 75k on it iirc. We've been looking out for one for a few years now but it remains unspotted. |
Didn't that get hammered by the biking press for some reason? ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Polarbear wrote: |
They did, yet the 750 version of the engine put in the cruiser style bike was lauded. I can't remember the reasons for the slagging though. |
Something very fundamental about it that Yamaha got wrong...reliability, or just design flaws? Wikipedia seems to think it actually sold quite well in Europe, but can't find anything definitive on it. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I thought you were going to say NR750.
Which, when I "worked" at a motorcycle dealership on the parts counter, we once priced one up as if you bought it as a collection of parts, new. The figure was utterly ridiculous, mind bending. No surprise if you consider what they cost new anyway, which is what prompted us to carry out this little exercise. Don't ask me the figure we came to; think it might have been in the order of infinity ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Polarbear wrote: | DN-01
I ought to hate it but I don't |
Novelty value. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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aaarrgghh my eyes...my very eyes!!!
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Suntan Sid wrote: | Honda CBX550FII
https://classic-motorbikes.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/8294.jpg
A great looking bike for 1982, always hankered after one, but the chocolate camshafts and the, ultimately, crap inboard discs put paid to that idea.
Fortunately I bought a 250 LC instead!
Anyway I haven't seen one for years, mind you I only ever saw a couple, both brand new, pristine examples, in a showroom, I assume any others that were sold were, constantly, in for warranty repairs and never actually turned a wheel on the road. |
I had one. Touch-wood the only bike I've had nicked so far. Only real issues were the cam-chain tensioner seizing and stretching the chain leading to that CBX550 death rattle, plus the length of time it took to change pads because of silly Honda inboard disks. That bike could do everything - hoon, tour, commute.... I'd gladly have another but even these are commanding silly prices nowadays. ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting... |
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: | Main gripe was w/ the tyres. |
Lol, bit unfair! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I miss the days of unrestricted 50s and 125s. You don't see any of those on the road any more, which is a shame because they were more fun than bigger bikes IMO when everybody had them. I has these rocketships….. The AP could do an indicated 55mph, the KH about 75 and I once saw 80 on the GP. That was back in the day when 50s made nearly 5bhp and 125s made almost 15 ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting... |
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Diggs wrote: | I miss the days of unrestricted 50s and 125s. You don't see any of those on the road any more, which is a shame because they were more fun than bigger bikes IMO when everybody had them. |
Was it the bikes, or the fact that "everybody had them"? I'll bet a lot would say LCs were more fun when everybody had them. I had more fun on bigger bikes because everybody I knew had them. Whatever you ride, you make your own fun. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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chickenstrip YFPOS wrote: | Diggs wrote: | I miss the days of unrestricted 50s and 125s. You don't see any of those on the road any more, which is a shame because they were more fun than bigger bikes IMO when everybody had them. |
Was it the bikes, or the fact that "everybody had them"? I'll bet a lot would say LCs were more fun when everybody had them. I had more fun on bigger bikes because everybody I knew had them. Whatever you ride, you make your own fun. |
It was both. We used to get up to dafter stunts on little bikes because it hurt and cost less coming off at relatively low speeds. It was only when we got bigger bikes that the grim reaper came knocking...
For example I can remember a lad in the year above wheelying a KE125 through Woolworth's window. It cost him more to replace the pick-and-mix than it did to repair his bike. Try that on a GS1000
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my 2 stroke 250s as well. I do remember a time when we rode those like 50s and 125s because we didn't have the sense to realise that going through a hedge at warp-speed on one of those hurt considerably more than doing it on a tiddler. These were my weapons of choice. Both completely different but lovely in their own right: ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...
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Diggs wrote: |
For example I can remember a lad in the year above wheelying a KE125 through Woolworth's window. It cost him more to replace the pick-and-mix than it did to repair his bike. Try that on a GS1000 |
Christ, wasn't it easier to just stroll in, stuff your pockets and stroll out again?! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Yes please. Yellow and black though please. I had a little go on one in about 1990/91 but didn't go very far. I had
the motorcycle shop where I was working at the times trade plates on and had no full licence. Long enough of a go
to almost loop it on first pull away (something similar happened with the MT09 ) and decided after a mile or so "This
things bloody dangerous!!! I want one!!!" Which was exactly the thought process when buying the Spacker. I had already
decided what I was having and was dead set on a Striple at that point. But the party on 2 wheels that is the MT09 changed
my mind and I bought the less accomplished but way more fun bike. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 335 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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